What gender are you?

beer wrote:Actually the fact that BT isn't very technical is puzzling. The first time I installed it it tried like hell to run it, without realizing all that was expected of me was to click a link. the simplicity of the original client is... scary.

LOL! I'm so glad someone understands! I felt like a *moron* after realizing that all BT initially required was clicking a link! T_T I think I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to fiddle with things... installing, un-installing, installing... *scratches head*

hehe, I admit that now, but a few months' ago - shortly after I learned how to use BT - I was still in vehement denial that I could do such a stupid thing...................

I'm a guy. After seeing My Sassy Girl and Summer Scent, I just had to find more sources for foreign movies and drama. I found the link for this site from AZNV.net. How many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download these movies and dramas?

On another note, the only reason I learned about BT was through downloading anime. And it's pretty obvious to me that most anime are intended for a male audience. For example, DBZ, Love Hina, Gundam are three anime from different genre that were probably made for guys.

Daijoubu wrote:I'm a guy. After seeing My Sassy Girl and Summer Scent, I just had to find more sources for foreign movies and drama. I found the link for this site from AZNV.net. How many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download these movies and dramas?

On another note, the only reason I learned about BT was through downloading anime. And it's pretty obvious to me that most anime are intended for a male audience. For example, DBZ, Love Hina, Gundam are three anime from different genre that were probably made for guys.

That's my 2 cent for my first pointless forum post,

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I would like to disagree on your comment that girls do not watch anime. That's what shoujo anime are for! Although there are some 'guy animes' there are an equal number of 'girl animes'... Off the top of my head, I've watched Cardcaptor Sakura, X/1999, Scrapped Princess, Rurouni Kenshin, Naruto (disputably a guy anime, but I love it). To be quite honest, from what I've seen, most animes tend to be aimed at a wide audience, often overlapping girl's and guy's tastes.

Plus, I always thought girls were supposedly to be more into "soaps" than guys. As pointed out by our poll that this is not the case, I still think your comment, "how many girls would actually sit down at a computer and search for a website that allows one to download.." is invalid. Although it seems that guys are in the majority on d-addicts, girls definitely do hold a significant percentage, don't you think? By doubting that girls would visit websites to search for dramas... I find that slightly offensive because isn't that an implication that we're computer illiterate? I didn't know much skill was required to browse through websites and search for things.....

Sorry, I didn't want you to take it the wrong way. I wasn't trying to say that girls are computer illiterate. In my personal experience, most of my girl friends think it's boring to sit at the computer searching for movies to download. However, they don't seem to mind when I burn the movies for them .

Anyways, you're probably right on the anime issue. I just usually don't watch shoujou anime , so that thought slipped my mind when I first replied to this post. My girl friend, who introduced me to anime, would probably give me a good beating if she read that line . She also taught me how to use irc, find fansubs group, and for a good 3 years, was my main source of anime. I'd would still be dependent on her if it weren't for BT.

So please don't be offended; I have no reason to pull a sexist comment when I'm spending most of my cable's bandwidth downloading, for example, Hotman .

Mmm... isn't it amazing? That was the first anime that got me totally hooked too! I especially loved the Kyoto arc series . . . I thought that was absolutely ... Simply no other way to describe it. ^_^ To this day, it remains one of my favorite anime series. I found that the historical content only added to the series... not to mention Kenshin AND Aoshi.

I hardly think appreciating the darker side in things is considered goth. ^__^ I really enjoyed the TV series, although it is very different from the OVAs. The TV series in general, is much more light-hearted... especially in the beginning episodes. It gets really awesome around the late 40s to 60s? I forget... it's been a little while. =P

im not really surprised that an online drama place would have so many guys. i mean most guys, atleast the guys that i know, wouldnt be too enthusiastic about everyone knowing that they like dramas so they would go to a place where they can do it privately. either way its all good.
girl, if you couldnt tell by the corny name.

정말 아름답군 (i hope i did this right, i'm not too good w/ honoriphics...pls correct me if its wrong)

i agree, BT-Slut. When i first saw Kuroimaho's avatar at FSC i thought it was of an asian actress, but i've never seen any other pics of her posted so i thought i'd ask. Go figure its you Kuroimaho . Pretty eyes.

I am a girl... And i seem to be the only girl here who isnt technologically oriented:( I am definetly not good with computers... It took me almost 1 month to figure out this whole BT thing.... espcially since I have a mac and playing avis with subs is complicated (to me anyway).... I think I had to cycle through, 15 payers before I found one that would do the job,,,

I have an interest in asian things because I sort of acquired an asian family recently, but I am from Canada.

puccakiss79 wrote:정말 아름답군 (i hope i did this right, i'm not too good w/ honoriphics...pls correct me if its wrong)

i agree, BT-Slut. When i first saw Kuroimaho's avatar at FSC i thought it was of an asian actress, but i've never seen any other pics of her posted so i thought i'd ask. Go figure its you Kuroimaho . Pretty eyes.

Thanks, was funny that the first PM I got on this forum was from a 0 post person and asked hey who is the woman in your av ? But some people thought that it is an actress.

BT-Slut wrote:Yes indeed. It's those lovely, huge eyes. Like ones straight out of a Japanese anime.

I thought her avatar was of an actress for sure. That's also a very nice picture. Whoever took the photo is a good photographer.

Well maybe it depends on the angle but some people said my eyes are scary, but right now when it really hurts I wish I had smaller. But still have to work on that tracker, sigh. The pic was taken with a webcam by my sis, but I will tell her she is great. ^^

hakurey wrote:I thought that was a screen shot of Im Soo-jung in Tale of Two Sisters. Looks very young

puccakiss79 wrote:정말 아름답군 (i hope i did this right, i'm not too good w/ honoriphics...pls correct me if its wrong)

i agree, BT-Slut. When i first saw Kuroimaho's avatar at FSC i thought it was of an asian actress, but i've never seen any other pics of her posted so i thought i'd ask. Go figure its you Kuroimaho . Pretty eyes.

Well maybe it depends on the angle but some people said my eyes are scary, but right now when it really hurts I wish I had smaller. But still have to work on that tracker, sigh. The pic was taken with a webcam by my sis, but I will tell her she is great. ^^

^^

Wow that picture is taken using a webcam?..and I was so sure that was the picture of a Japanese actress.....

Well, obviously I'm more than 100% guy.... anyway, it's a simple nature that guy has dick and girl has.....well, you figure it out, then, okay?

Anyway, I also find out that technology is no longer a male privilege, and I'm so glad about that by getting along with the presence so well in this very century, hmm, at least we can have new fresh competitors.....

i was soo bored i read all 9 pages! hahaha how bored can one get during summer time! now i hav all da time to go and surf the net! anywayz

hmmmz imma gurl hehe hence babyguh anywayz i knew of this site cuz of my bro he likes to d/l anime and jdrama whereas i never really liked jdrama(until now) and he accidentlally d/l a kdrama which was bright girl and it got me thinking of i can d/l other types of dramas. then i searched around.
one needs patience searchin fo the d/l suff
and my family didnt let me hav internet fo a while so i didnt kno anythin bout forums and stuff ehhe
my bro only gave me the link to the torrent page(b4 this setup) so i never figured out to post and stuff. with time i learned many thngs about computer even putting in my own burner! haha i was so happy
but wenever i hav probs ill just ask my bro haha like the BT things
and almost in college but my major wll b liberal arts heheh

haha i said alot dunt mind me but there was a poll like this at jdorama and it was always the guyz but now guhz can do anything the guyz can right jus takes time prob cuz i had to read all the FAQ bout everythin and also prob most guhz are out and dunt like to spend time posting and searching fo the stuff they want....

The poll results are interesting but they're not revealing. I get the feeling that the majority of the people who are downloading are girls, more specifically, girls who post regularly at female dominated sites like soompi.com. So it's like they come here, they download, they go there, they post, but they don't post as much over here.

I browsed thru the 9 pages in btw England n Portugal match..
haha.. bt i'm a gal.. n surprisingly, i didnt have much of a prob using BT becoz i chanced on the links first and later gt to know i have to use BT client.. so i didnt have the "installing and uninstalling" processes to undergo..
hmm.. hw cum there's no lawyers and doctors here??
btw i'm 22yrs old and majoring in accountancy (rare field here)!!

Well, I'm a gal 23, chinese, majoring in computing. I do teach some guys to download using bittorent and install codecs to watch it. Actually gals and guys nowadays are almost the same level in technical issues.

rainidy wrote:i'm a girl. wow, can't believe that there so many guys into dramas and stuff. hehe

well here's another guy into dramas... but my sis and my friends consider me a wannabe japanese school girl trapped in a white skinhead looking boy's body so it might not count. that should bring some fun pictures to mind o.O

I'm a guy, but I don't really like watching lots of sappy dramas. For instance, I cannot stand any korean dramas. My mother rents them by the truckload, and they all center around love triangles with Korea's national disease (cancer) infecting the female lead. Plus, Koreans all love to smack each other around and cry every 5 minutes. I remember seeing some of Beautiful Days (Chinese girls forced me to) and the girl as well as the guys in that drama cry so much!!!!
I prefer the comedies of jdramas.

Maybe guys are on D-Addicts more often because they don't want people to know they watch asian dramas and so don't bother renting and watching with friends. Or maybe, we are all cheapskates who don't want to buy the videos. Or maybe, guys are more in tuned with internet sites and tech.

koolau wrote:Maybe guys are on D-Addicts more often because they don't want people to know they watch asian dramas and so don't bother renting and watching with friends. Or maybe, we are all cheapskates who don't want to buy the videos. Or maybe, guys are more in tuned with internet sites and tech.

ha! all of the above + we have females in the household who figured out that we can dl this stuff, and now are demanding that we bring in more of it.

well im a guy, 27 is yr, who loves watchin doramas..have been collecting and watchin them for the last 6 yrs or so.... but kdramas is really the limit for me.....too many episodesmakes it too draggy and everyone loves to cry..... maybe if they shorten the dramas to 10 episodes or so i'll consider watching

Haha, I'm the same way as Pegasus..now I think doramas are more interesting than anime.

Anyway, I'm a 18 year old girl from southern California, and I mostly agree with the guys using BT more than girls, but man! I didn't attribute the girl-icons to guys, I always thought that more girls would like the sappy cutey-love stuff. ^_^ No offense, yo!

well,can't say that i am a computer geek here,cos up till now,i still dunno (and am afraid) to try and take my pc apart to do upgrading stuff.

but i m juz an ordinary 23 year old girl who juz happened to find this great file sharing called bittorrent and at the same time,introduced to great k-dramas by a new tv channel,and have been addicted ever since.

I'm an 18 year old CA girl. Totally not a comp geek though. Although I find myself very attached to my computer these days. In fact, I used to hate computers and I wouldn't even touch computers for the longest time until my cousin built me one. Most of my friends don't watch dramas and since I'm such a d-addict, I searched the internet about them and somehow got here.